Please note that I have listed separately a Concorde solid Gold miniature coin Bullion; Concorde Sterling Silver coin Bullion (Sorry! Sold), Letter Opener, Sterling Silver cufflinks (Sorry! Sold), Key Ring and a Pen Holder (Sorry! Sold). Please have a look, when you have a minute. Thank you.

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Maiden voyage to Toulouse - 2 March 1969

Speed 2,385 km/hour (to USA in 3 hours)

 More INFO:

Role                             Supersonic transport

National origin             United Kingdom and France

Manufacturer             

BAC (later BAe and BAE Systems)

Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale and Airbus)

First flight                          2 March 1969

Introduction                       21 January 1976

Retired                              24 October 2003

Status                                Retired

Primary users                    British Airways Air France

Produced                           1965–1979

Number built                      20 (Inc. 6 non-commercial aircraft)

Program cost                     £1.3 billion

The Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British–French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound, at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph or 2,180 km/h at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued flying for the next 27 years. It is one of only two supersonic transports to have been operated commercially; the other is the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144, which operated in the late 1970s.[8][9] 

Concorde was jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aerospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) under an Anglo-French treaty. Twenty aircraft were built, including six prototypes and development aircraft. Air France (AF) and British Airways (BA) were the only airlines to purchase and fly Concorde. The aircraft was used mainly by wealthy passengers who could afford to pay a high price in exchange for the aircraft's speed and luxury service. For example, in 1997, the round-trip ticket price from New York to London was $7,995 ($12.7 thousand in 2019 dollars),[10] more than 30 times the cost of the cheapest option to fly this route.[11]

The original programme cost estimate of £70 million met huge overruns and delays, with the program eventually costing £1.3 billion. It was this extreme cost that became the main factor in the production run being much smaller than anticipated. Later, another factor, which affected the viability of all supersonic transport programmes, was that supersonic flight could only be used on ocean-crossing routes, to prevent sonic boom disturbance over populated areas. With only seven airframes each being operated by the British and French, the per-unit cost was impossible to recoup, so the French and British governments absorbed the development costs. British Airways and Air France were able to operate Concorde at a profit, in spite of very high maintenance costs, because the aircraft was able to sustain a high ticket price. 

Among other destinations, Concorde flew regular transatlantic flights from London's Heathrow Airport and Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia and Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados; it flew these routes in less than half the time of other airliners. 

Concorde won the 2006 Great British Design Quest, organised by the BBC and the Design Museum of London, beating other well-known designs such as the BMC Mini, the miniskirt, the Jaguar E-Type, the London Tube map and the Supermarine Spitfire. The type was retired in 2003, three years after the crash of Air France Flight 4590, in which all passengers and crew were killed. The general downturn in the commercial aviation industry after the September 11 attacks in 2001 and the end of maintenance support for Concorde by Airbus (the successor company of both Aerospatiale and BAC) also contributed to the retirement.

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